FALMOUTH, Maine — Join experienced sugarmakers from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Southern Maine Maple Sugarmakers Association for a FREE workshop on all aspects of making maple syrup – the sweetest gift of nature – in your own back yard! Participants will learn about identifying and tapping trees, collecting and boiling sap, and filtering grading and canning syrup. January 12th, 2018 from 9am-11am at the UMaine Regional Learning Center, 75 Clearwater Drive, Suite 104, in Falmouth, ME. (RSVP required to attend, to RSVP email extension.rlreception@
University of Maine Cooperative Extension:
As a trusted resource for 100 years, University of Maine Cooperative Extension has supported UMaine’s land and sea grant public education role by conducting community-driven, research-based programs in every Maine county. UMaine Extension helps support, sustain and grow the food-based economy. It is the only entity in our state that touches every aspect of the Maine Food System, where policy, research, production, processing, commerce, nutrition, and food security and safety are integral and interrelated. UMaine Extension also conducts the most successful out-of-school youth educational program in Maine through 4-H.
–University of Maine Cooperative Extension
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